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DON'T LEAVE YOUR CAR IN.REDDER STREET.
THERE is no longer any reason why you should leave your car out in the street all day. Sunshine and rain alike cause deterioration, while meddling fingers are liablo to interfere with it.
Within a fow seconds of the centre of the City, a new garage has opened where you may leave your car or cycle with the assurance that it will be well looked after. It is located in the old Fire Station Building where there is ample accomodation.
Furthermore, an expert staff of mechanics is ready to affect any repairs quickly and efficiently.
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All Cars..... $15.00 per month or $1.00 a day Motor Cycles $ 7.50
THE CENTRAL MOTOR GARAGE Old Fire Station Building. Des Voeux Road. Telephones C. 2196 and 4821.
When buying Toilet requisites and articles for personal use, one wishes to be very sure that they are of the highest quality and of undoubted purity and freshness.
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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH.
BISHOP OF LONDON:
VISIT TO DIOCESAN BOYS' SCHOOL;
1THURSDAY- DECEMBER 30, 1926.
BEAM RADIO,
EXTENSION OF IMPERIAL COMMUNICATIONS,
The Bishop of London visited the Diocesan Boys' School on Wodnea- day morning. After seeing the grounds, a photograph of the staff And the School was taken with the Bishop of London, Me. A. O. Blythe, the Rev. H. C. Thomas and Colonel Robertson,
Whilst the boys were assembl Ing in the School Hall, the Bishop of London inspected part of the buildings, signed the Visitors" Book and asked that photographs of the School and of the buildings and grounds should be sent to him.
At the Assembly, the Head-in commission. master, Rev. W. T. Featherstone, on behalf of the Diocesan Boys School and Orphanage, welcomed the Lord Bishop of London. to one of the oldest and one of the newpat institutions of the Church of England in the Far East.
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CHINESE TELEGRAPHS,
FOREIGN COMPANIES AGAIN TAKE ACTION..
Rugby, Dec. 20.
........... Shanghai, Dec. 29. | Telegraphic messages, by beam The foreign cable companies wireless are being exchanged ex have issued the following to-day: rerimentally between, beam ata- "As on two previous occasions, tions in England and Australia, the foreign cable companies, the and the service will be officially Great Northern, Eastern Exten- tested next week by the Post Office, sion, and Commercial Pacifle, It is anticipated that the beam will have, owing to the Chinese Tele- then be available to the public graph Administration having fail- almost immediately.
ed to settle their daily accounts Simultaneously, a beam servich
as arranged, again been reluctan between Australia and Vancouver, Canada, will be opened further compelled, as from 6 o'clock on link in the Empire chain between the afternoon of December 28, to Canada and Britain being already refuse to necept from the Adminis
tration telegrams other than Gov- In February, communication by ernment tolograms, unless Recom-. beam wireless between Britain panied by cash. Hitherto the Ad- and South Africa will be publicly ministration has failed to comply operated, and arrangenients for a with the companies' request for similar service with India are cash payments, and telegrams from approaching completion.
all inland places via Shanghal| The Post Office requirement in have been withheld since the above The Bishop of London, in an each case is that the service mentioned hour. The companies." address, congratulated the Headshould carry one hundred five whilst regretting any incon master and the School on their letter words per minute during ventence which may be caused by buildings and grounds. He said seven hours daily, British Wire this measure, again fuel sure the he knew most of the public schools
legs.
public will agree that in the cir- in England and that in his tour of
cumstances they have no alterna- the world he had seen very many public schools. He thought he was not exaggerating when he said that the site of the Diocesas Boys' School was the finest school sita he had seen in the world.
The Bishop went on to say that public schools produce lenders of nations and the iocesan school should produce leaders of China There were five things he wished to mention. First, be sincere and be honest; secondly, do not boast, and put on side," you are only one in millions of people; thirdly, have a purpose in life;, fourthly, have faith in God, and lastly, have a sense of humour. Many difficul ties on a staff, in a school and in the world were, he said, settled amicably and peacefully by people
who had a sense of humour,
L. R. Dixon, the Senior Prefect, thanked the Bishop for his specch and called for three cheers.
A short walk was then taken past the Rock Garden and through the covered playground. The boys lined the School drive, which is about a quarter of mile long, an gave the Bishop hearty cheers as he left the School grounds.
THE TIENTSIN ARRESTS.
BRITISH LETTER TO CANTON GOVERNMENT.
The Hon. Colonial Secretary has forwarded a copy of a letter ad- drossed by the Consul-General," Canton, to the Acting Minister for Foreign Affairs in Canton on the subject of the arrest of ecrtain criminals in the Tientsin conces- sion, as follows
1. B. M. Consulate General, Can- ton, December 23rd, 1026.
Sir,With reference to your letter of the 2nd December, trans- mitting a copy of the communica tion which the Canton Govern- ment telegraphed direct to His Majesty's Government in regard to the arrest of certain members of the Kuomintang in tite British concession at Tientain, I am direct- ed by His Majesty's Minister at Peking to communicate for your information the enclosed text of a reply which was recently given in Parliament to a question on the' subject, and in which the facts are correctly stated.
I am further'instructed to point but that the Canton Government are in error in attributing the ar rest of these men to British hosti- lity to the Nationalist party, and they are equally in error.in stating that the men were hand- ed over to the Fengtlen military authorities. They were handed over to the Chinese police, who are the properly con- stituted authorities for dealing with such cases. His Majesty's. Government have no reason, to suppose that the Chinese authori ties will be guilty of such bar- barous or illegal treatment of prisoners as the Canton Govern- ment appear to suggest, but neither His Majesty's Government nor any foreign Government. can be held responsible for the ac tions of the Chinese Authorities."
His Majesty's Government have always held the view that Chinese residing in British concessions in China were not by the foot of such residence withdrawn from the jurisdiction of the Chinese au- thorities. It has been their set- tled policy not to allow British concessions to be used as an asylum for criminals, or as a base for conspirators belonging to, any of the political factions in China, and they are confident that the Canton Govorniment, when thus fully informed of the facts, will recognise that the action of the British authorities in Tientsin was Inspired by a regard for the sover- eign rights of China; and not by any feeling of hostility towards the Nationullat Party-I havo, etc, | ́(Sd); J. F. Brenan, Acting Consul:]
General.
THE ROYAL TOUR.tive but to insist on cash pay- DUKE AND DUCHESS OF YORK.
IN TOWN.
Rugby, Dec. 29. The Duke and Duchess of York) returned to London yesterday from Sandringham,vhere, with other members of the Royal family, they have spent Christmas with the King and Queen.
They are now abgaged in final preparations for their visit to New Zealand and Australia,
ments."-Reuter.
ITALO-GERMAN TREATY.
IMPORTANT PACT-READY FOR SIGNATURE.
Rome, Dec. 29,. The Italo-German treaty The battleship Renown by friendship and arbitration has which they will travel, will leave been concluded and will be signed Portsmouth to-morrow week, pro-to-day.
It is regarded as one of the eeeding via the Panama Canal New Zealand, and thence to Aus most important developments in tralin. British Wireless
Italian foreign policy-Reuter.
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